Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge" for his "province" and not be speedily committed to a private hospital. What, for example, could even semi-encyclopaedic newsgatherers make of "the purification of colloids by electro-dialysis," the feat which Guggenheim money will aid Dr. Richard Bradfield, soil professor at the University of Missouri to accomplish? Dr. William Henry Eyster's project, at the University of Maine, to study "the physiology of chloroplastid pigments," was equally inscrutable. And why should Dr. Ralph Erskine Cleland of Goucher College be given money to pry into "the chromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose [Oenothera]"! What services would...
...illegal thing if a way could be found to do it; safely. But such," said Judge Gary, "was never the case. His statement to me was merely typical of the challenging way he adopted at times. One was supposed to know that what he planned to accomplish was not in defiance...
...here again the council may defeat its own aim. Whatever the Williams Student Council may accomplish in the future, will in all probability be put through by this pentarchy. The experience of the Harvard Student Council would seem to prophecy that the rest of the council will not be very active. It will receive its facts and opinions in more or less predigested form, and unless composed of rather extraordinarily energetic men will be inclined to let it go at that...
...which lectures and tutoring will be definitely suspended for two periods of the academic year. Drastic as the plan appears upon surface examination, careful perusal of the details is quite convincing not only of its enforceability but of its likelihood to achieve the result which it is aiming to accomplish...
...inspired by ambition or conviction; their desires to accomplish something in the world are purely selfish. If you could look into the soul of every man you meet in the course of a day, no vision of a woman would be enshrined there. No woman ever penetrates to the soul of a man, despite all things said to the contrary. . . . Left in their proper relation to man women are all that is delicious, adorable, sensuous. They are, in a large sense, necessary to our physical wellbeing...